banned from Argon, every one

One of the better stories coming out of my association with Sammi, although there are admittedly a lot of really good stories;

We decided that we'd animate "The Eye of Argon" - straight ahead, randomly switching off who animated what, without doing model sheets or anything like that, so we'd maintain the coherent storytelling of the original. I'm pretty sure both of us figured the story deserved Bakshi-like inconsistent pacing, because Sammi did a really nice initial sequence of the throw-away guard characters approaching for something like 3 minutes, and I roughed out the sequence where the heroine kicks an evil priest between the testicles - which I figured needed to be takes and double-takes to the point where it became annoying and dull. I also contributed the title, with letters that had flames, blades, skulls and eyeballs - trying to go for what a 16 year old metal fan stuck in detention would thing looked really cool. And then we stopped work for the evening and never picked it up again. This was I dunno, 3 or 4 years ago.

I gotta wonder, would people go for an "animated Eye of Argon" Kickstarter? I mean the big materials cost would be pretty much paper and alcohol and maybe less typical varieties of kimchi.

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Suddenly I realized that with its focus on the 10 Biblical plagues, The Abominable Doctor Phibes qualifies as an appropriate Passover movie.

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In related news I associate the Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor with the U Michigan Law Quad. The photos in the snow are pretty much how I always think of the Law Quad.